Ruthie Rose wakes up with an idea.
A big, bright, beautiful idea.
An idea so great! An idea so grand! Ruthie Rose can't wait to share it with her idea-loving librarian, her art teacher, and her best friend. As the idea gets shared, it sparkles through her classmates, shouts down the hallway, and echoes over the playground. It invites everyone in the school, including YOU. John Schu's effervescent prose is complemented by Holly Hatam's vibrant artwork in clear, vivid colors, depicting a cast of adorable characters. Collaged throughout the artwork are intriguing snippets of language and lines from classic poems, sure to inspire young poetry lovers to discover more.
Holly Hatam is an artist and author who has been drawing since she was old enough to hold a pencil. Even as a kid, she held art gallery openings in her tiny bedroom and charged her family a whopping twenty-five-cent admission fee! Today she is an author and illustrator working in bookmaking and animation. Best known for the #1 New York Times best-selling books Dear Girl and Dear Boy by Paris Rosenthal and Jason B. Rosenthal, Holly Hatam has worked on more than thirty books, both as an illustrator and as an author. She lives in Waterloo, Ontario. You can find her at hollyhatam.com and on Instagram @hollyhatamillustration.